The Brookhaven leader., 1887-04-21
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS,

At Union Springs, Ala, the young Ia
dies occasionally while away Sundays by
playing bas = ball
The heaviest rain In several months fel
at San Antonio, Tex. a few days ago
lasting about two hours. Reports from
the south and west are 70 the eject that
the downpour in these directions was
greater than there. The rain viii have
the effect Of causing grass to begin grow
ing, though il was not OF sum .ieut pro
portions 10 60 The drv water holes OF
start creeks or branches Tia. have beer
dry for months.
The Georgia Pacific railroad betwccr
Columbus, Miss, ard Birmingham is com
pleted 1t is stated that this road will be
gin building west from Columbus at once
connecting with the Grccnvlle fMiss)
branch. The completion Of his r0al give!
Columbus a direct route to all Northern
and Eastern markets..
The new cotton council, which inauCu
rated the strike in New Orleans is gradu
ally melting away. The Weighers As.
sociation and the Classers and Samplers
Association, the latter having member
ship Of about five hundred, hive with
drawn from the new council, which is
now com posed of only white cotton-rollers
and screw men. Cotton Is being moved
as fast as sold. and the back bono o. the
strike may he considered as broken.
While attending temporarily to the
molding planer at the factory of the
Cool ye-Ramsey Manufacturing Com.
pany AZ Helena, Ark, few days ago.
Mr.. c. II. Coolidge, one of the partners
lost his footing and was participated &c
the bOiicr-room below, sustaining very
serious injuries. One leg was broken in
three places The thumb-nail Of the left
hand was torn of Besides, he had sew
eral contusions OF a painful nature.
a tug with a pleasure party on board
eTerturned near New OrleaGs few days
ago and young lady, Miss Barton, of Al
giers, was drowned
W. II. Gigger, who shot and killed Cap
tain II ggils at Carthaga, Tenn, was ac
Quilted on the ground of insanity
Fl. c. Griser, a farmer Of Bossier Parish,
La, was shot from ambush few davs
ago, whl'e blowing in a field. His te Y
~ear-old son was the only witness Of the
crime, the perpetrato- Of which made his
escape
Mr. Miley Groves. aged seventy years,
and Mss Laura Wallace, aged ninate en-
years. both of Robertson County, Tenn,
were married at the hOm1 of the brides
parents, ne lr + / g tcld Junction. a few
days ago The BRIDEGROOM presented his
young wife with 5000 as bridal pres
ent
An old man named Jesus Cambria, OF
Laredo, Tex, who is sometimes troubled
with ins lns fits. strayei from his home
in the lower end of the town a few days
since, and walking down the street, fell
from the brink OF the Arroya HIcata, e
deep canyon. and was instantly Killed.
Columbus, XIV. was sited by slight
| earthquake shock a few mornings since.
There was slight tremOr, ac ompanied
by a rumbling sound like distant thun Ter
A second shock took place later, with
| stronger vibrations and also rum bling
sound, swaying buildings very percepti
bly,.
The nti-Prohibitionists Of Texas will
| held State contention at Dallas On May
! 4, and Johu Hancock will state mis- views
| Three months later the people will vote
on the temperance amendment.
Isaac Pappenheimer peddler from H.
! dauapolis, Ind, was murdered, pre-
| sumaby for morev, between rIllahoma
and Beech Grove, Tenn. few nights ago
! by some unknown person. His head wa
| crushed with club.
Near Greenville, Ala, few days ago
! negro went away after locking his five
! children IN the house. When he returne
| there was smould 3ring ruin with tV
! charred bodies in its midst.
| One of the immediate results of the In
! ter-S ate Commerce law is the ship mt
/ of large amounts of -four and grain for
| expectation to New Orleans by way o
| the Mississippi river.
| The girls at Covington, KY, have or
ganized a boycott which involves non
| association with young men who go'
| drunk The girls have introduced wha
| no man had wit enough u deVse-a boy
cott that is both expelient and lawful.
Messrs. Butcher, Oliver and associates
of the Southern Oil Company have pur
chased twenty-four acres Of land at th'
| junction of the Memphis & Charleston anC
Kansas City railroads, 1t is their pur
! pose to at once erect cottonseed mil
and refinery. The price paid for the
| grounds was S25 SO).
A mob from Midd. cbrook, Va. ORGANIZED
to lynch two colored incendiarie5 wht
were taken to StauntOn few days since
| The authorities having learned Of tht
| movement of the MOB, sent the prisoners
| to Harrisonburg. The mob went to with
in a few miles of iowa, and learning of tht
| removal of the prisoners, dispersed.
Editor John Woodhouse, of the Con-
cord (N c. Register, died suddenly few
days ago of an apoplcctic stroke He wul
! native Of new jersey, and was ,ab0u
| sixty wears Old. He was an officer in
! New Jersey regiment during the late war
| Eleven years ago he removei TO ConcorC
! and established the Register. He wa
| highly esteemed as cltlZA AMI litor.
Ov the signature 'of 'Jud ye Lunch,
one of the Yorkville Is. c. lynchers pub
! fishes in the D!i'y Register a manifesto t,
! the people of Sou h Carolina in justitica
ton of the recent lynching Of five negroes
murderers, at Yorkville, because of la,
methods of administer 2 justice to mur
derers in the State courts, and threaten
ing further lynchings in event of jUr.e
falling TO perform their duties.
| Asfaltas, one of the candidates for IN
Kentucky Derby, while being exercised
at the race track few days ago, ran int
the fence, throwi G his jockey, Charlie
Taylor, and trampling him to death. Tit
horse was so badly injured that it wa
founl nece sary to kill him. svlor wa
mulatto, twenty years oil, and was on
of the best known jDckeTs in the coEntry
and was to have rid len Jim Gore, oAe o
the favorites in the Derby.
The village of Fdrnham, R'chmon
County. Va, WIS almost entirely dt
stroyed by fire few days ago. The tow
is situated about seven miles from Sharp
wharf, on the RIpp hammock. Among tn
heaviest losers are f. L. Moseingo, F. Nc
seingo and r. L. Reynolds, The ol
Protestant Episcopal Church, built i
colonial days, and one of the oldest house
of worship in the country, was burned.